Geological Setting and Age of Australopithecus sediba from Southern Africa
العنوان: | Geological Setting and Age of Australopithecus sediba from Southern Africa |
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المؤلفون: | Brian F. Kuhn, Christine M. Steininger, Jan Kramers, Geoffrey C. P. King, Lee R. Berger, Daniel L. Farber, Anne-Sophie Mériaux, Job M. Kibii, Paul H.G.M. Dirks, Andy I.R. Herries, Steven E. Churchill, Robyn Pickering |
المصدر: | Science. 328:205-208 |
بيانات النشر: | American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), 2010. |
سنة النشر: | 2010 |
مصطلحات موضوعية: | Australopithecus sediba, geography, Multidisciplinary, geography.geographical_feature_category, biology, Pleistocene, Context (language use), biology.organism_classification, Neogene, Paleontology, Australopithecus, Cave, Geochronology, Lithification, Geology |
الوصف: | From Australopithecus to Homo Our genus Homo is thought to have evolved a little more than 2 million years ago from the earlier hominid Australopithecus . But there are few fossils that provide detailed information on this transition. Berger et al. (p. 195 ; see the cover) now describe two partial skeletons, including most of the skull, pelvis, and ankle, of a new species of Australopithecus that are informative. The skeletons were found in a cave in South Africa encased in sediments dated by Dirks et al. (p. 205 ) to about 1.8 to 1.9 million years ago. The fossils share many derived features with the earliest Homo species, including in its pelvis and smaller teeth, and imply that the transition to Homo was in stages. |
تدمد: | 1095-9203 0036-8075 |
URL الوصول: | https://explore.openaire.eu/search/publication?articleId=doi_________::7f7e1f16b16a39d72de1f35012e4b79a https://doi.org/10.1126/science.1184950 |
حقوق: | OPEN |
رقم الأكسشن: | edsair.doi...........7f7e1f16b16a39d72de1f35012e4b79a |
قاعدة البيانات: | OpenAIRE |
تدمد: | 10959203 00368075 |
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